Bill Joy Quotes

I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

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• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • Long
  • Writing

• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Parents

• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Together

• I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Different
  • Trying

• I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Feeling
  • Lost
  • Period

• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Want

• There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• Just say no to drugs!

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Say
  • Just

• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Heart
  • American

• When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Me
  • Cancer
  • Doctor

• He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Being
  • Defeat
  • Fears

• I represent my country, but I also represent the continent of Africa when I play in Europe. That's why it's important to try to achieve something big.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Important
  • Country
  • Why

• Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Society
  • Fly

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Live
  • Art
  • Book

• Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Past
  • Cry
  • Floor

• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Music
  • Girl

• The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Great
  • Training
  • Spring

• The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Good Lord. I’d be lying if I said I’d never Googled myself, but it honestly never occurred to me to add ‘naked’ to my search criteria. Sure enough, there have been five nude ‘episodes’. And I know this is self-destructive but somehow I find myself on a ‘nudescenes’ forum where linus22 is arguing that I have odd-shaped nipples. Do I? Oh God! That thought never occurred to me! One more for the self-esteem list.

  

  Alice Evans
  • Episodes
  • List
  • Criteria

• I just don't like to lose what's in the window.

  

  Bill Joy